CASS MCCOMBS' NEW ALBUM 'HUMOR RISK'; 'THE SAME THING' MP3

We are pleased to announce that the prolific Cass McCombs is to release his second album this year, Humor Risk, on November 7, 2011.

You can listen to and download the album track, “The Same Thing,” here:

Humor Risk was recorded in various homes and studios in California, New York, New Jersey and Chicago, and was produced by Cass McCombs and Ariel Rechtshaid, with whom he created WIT’S END, and before that, CATACOMBS.

Humor Risk is an attempt at laughter instead of confusion, chaos instead of morality, or, as fellow Northern Californian Jack London said, “I would rather be ashes than dust!”. Musically, it is more rhythm-based, tempos swifter to nearly rocking, than the sparse Wit’s End. Infectious melodies are outlined by a wry lyricism that expresses the stories of characters from McCombs’ native land. Rather than fulfilling the stereotype of the confessional singer-songwriter, he describes the lifestyles and feelings of those that surround him, with more love than judgment: drugs, Scientology, Western America, and so on, in allegorical form.

Humor Risk portrays yet another face of this versatile and much underrated artist.

The tracklisting for Humor Risk is as follows:

1. Love Thine Enemy2. The Living Word3. The Same Thing 4. To Every Man His Chimera5. Robin Egg Blue6. Mystery Mail7. Meet Me At the Mannequin Gallery8. Mariah (sketch)